The Freedom

[rhythm]

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by rhythm

YouTube- Richie Havens Freedom Woodstock 1969

Yea!

[greybeard]

Well written Oliver and an important observation.
Love Chris

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by greybeard

Well written Oliver and an important observation.
Love Chris

Thank you Chris. You know, I woke up this morning with a smile, i just realized how big victory it is to have more than 70% of the population out of THEIR control. It is so promising. I knew I should express it...

[Gnosis5]

Originally Posted by Oliver

Thank you Chris. You know, I woke up this morning with a smile, i just realized how big victory it is to have more than 70% of the population out of THEIR control. It is so promising. I knew I should express it...

Yes, my mother-in-law and father-in-law did not get the vaccine and they always get whatever they are told to get by their doctors

There are people who worked on this consciousness raising project from many angles, both large and small. The lid is coming off the cage and the birds will fly free

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by Gnosis5

Yes, my mother-in-law and father-in-law did not get the vaccine and they always get whatever they are told to get by their doctors

There are people who worked on this consciousness raising project from many angles, both large and small. The lid is coming off the cage and the birds will fly free

Thank you, Gnosis....will fly, will fly!
We`ll fly!

Blessings

[Oliver]

[Oliver]

Real freedom is having nothing.
I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

- Mike Tyson

[Oliver]

If you think we are free today, you know nothing
about tyranny and even less about freedom.

- Tom Braun

[Oliver]

When you have robbed a man of
everything, he is no longer in your
power. He is free again.

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[bushycat]

Pure joy, Oliver.


BC

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by bushycat

Pure joy, Oliver.


BC

[Oliver]

We think caged birds sing,
when indeed they cry.

- John Webster

[burgundia]

Birds in a Cage

"Why do you weep?" inquired the young siskin of the old,
"You're more comfortable in this cage than out in the cold."
"You were born caged," said the elder, "this was your morrow;
"I was free, now I'm caged—hence the cause of my sorrow."



IGNACY KRASICKI (1735-1801)

[Oliver]

Thanks, Burgundia, it is inspiring and matches with previous post.
Now, this Polish author made me to think about the great Polish director Krzystof Kieszlowsky and his movie trilogy "Three colors" (Blue, Red and White), where he "play" with three universal values symbolically: Blue=Equality; Red= Justice and White= Freedom.
Here is a piece from Three colors: White.

Two friends. One is desperate. He pays to his friend to kill him. His friend takes the money and...see how he liberate him...

And music...great piece by the genius Zbigniw Preisner!

[Gnosis5]

Originally Posted by Oliver

Real freedom is having nothing.
I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

- Mike Tyson

When I was younger I was materialistic and counted my wealth in square footage and location. Today I am a very wealthy woman not at all related to money or possessions. And it is not anathema to me, au contraire

[Astra]

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom
Rabindranath Tagore


Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore

in Love and Light
Astra

[morguana]

freedom is a right
love to you all
may you all be free
m x

[Oliver]

[Oliver]

Melody Hogan - No more!




Author`s thoughts: I've heard that long after prisoners have actually been set free, there can still remain the phantom feeling of shackles around their wrists and ankles. The mind and senses are struggling to accept the change, and therefore continue to reproduce the sensation of bondage even though the chains are not there.

The same is true with the issues of the heart. Sin can take a devastating toll on our lives, oftentimes convincing us that we'll never be free from the power of its grasp. Even the restraints that held us captive take on a seductive familiarity. We may not know what true freedom feels like, but at least we know the comfort of our own slavery. Twisted perspective, but true.

For some freedom can be an uncomfortable, scary place that holds no solid answers, but lots and lots of questions.

"Will it last? Am I finally free? What if I can't resist it? Who am I without it? What does real freedom even look like? Is there something wrong with me?"

It's intimidating at best...and sometimes it feels safer to turn tail and run back to the thing that accepts us, rather than brave the harsh realities of the life that's so publicly rejected us.

...and then sometimes...it's just best to hide ourselves behind the armor of our Defender and shout over His shoulder, "YOU DON'T HAVE ME ANY MORE!"

He will fight for you.

[Oliver]

I hope for nothing.
I fear nothing.
I am free.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

[Oliver]

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

- Moshe Dayan

[Oliver]

The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.

- Ernest Holmes

[Oliver]

Long time ago, this poem was my first soul lecture of why and how to love humans and to believe in their potentials. I was searching in my life, and thanks to the Creator, i was finding a lot of these characteristics in many people I met. I loved them. I love them still. I will never stop loving people. They are beautiful beings...


Rudyard Kipling

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

[Oliver]

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

- Francois Voltaire